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The old hag in a red cloak, inscribed to the author of the Grim White Woman : manuscript copy of the poem, undated [1801 or later].

BIB_ID
136841
Accession number
MA 406.18
Creator
Watson-Taylor, George, -1841.
Display Date
undated [1801 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
In Watson-Taylor's introduction to the poem (1802), he states that it was "written long before the work upon which they are founded was presented to the Public" (Matthew Lewis's Tales of Wonder, 1801).
N.B. The poem is not in the autograph of Watson-Taylor, Percy Bysshe Shelley, or Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Part of a collection of letters from Percy Bysshe Shelley. Items in the collection have been cataloged individually in separate records; see related collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
A satire on Matthew Gregory (Monk) Lewis.